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THE FACULTY
THE CHANGING PROFESSORIATE
Data collected and published by the U.S. Education Department
show that the number of faculty members working at community
colleges and in part-time positions has increased in recent
years: A14
PLAGIARISM CHARGED
A woman who recently received her Ph.D. from Cornell University
has accused one of her professors of copying from her
dissertation to win a federal research grant: A16
PLAGIARISM ADMITTED
A professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young
University has admitted that he plagiarized significant
portions of his latest book: A16
PUSH FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
More states are requiring professionals in more occupations to
take classes than ever before, according to a new report: A41
- A THINK TANK to help professors improve their teaching has
been set up by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching: A14
- A PROFESSOR AT THE ROCHESTER Institute of Technology is
organizing job-hunting support for alumni of the institute's
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, following recent
layoffs by the Rochester-based Eastman Kodak Company: A14
- PEER REVIEW: A57
- Queens College of the City University of New York has
named Benny Kraut as the new director of Jewish studies,
two years after a campus brouhaha over whether the post
should be held by someone who is Jewish.
- Luminaries from both inside and outside academe attended
the retirement party for Martin Marty, a professor of
religion at the University of Chicago and a prolific
author.
- The chairman of Yale University's classics department is
moving to the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton,
N.J.
- A science writer at The Washington Post is moving to a
journalism post at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
AN AMERICAN FACTORY'S LIFE AND DEATH
A literary scholar at Duke University and a photographer who
lectures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
have produced a book on the failure of a business in North
Carolina and the effect on its employees: A18
THE FIRST AMERICANS
Growing evidence could overturn long-held beliefs about when
and how human beings migrated from Asia and settled in the New
World, and about who those people were: A22
PLAGIARISM ADMITTED
A professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young
University has admitted that he plagiarized significant
portions of his latest book: A16
GREATER EMPHASIS ON SCIENCE
The National Institutes of Health is considering a plan to stop
requiring researchers to submit detailed budget plans along
with their applications for grants: A42
STUDYING LEGALIZED DRUG USE
The Addiction Research Institute of Rotterdam plays a key role
in shaping the liberal drug policies of the Netherlands: B2
- LESBIANS AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN differ in the functioning of
their ears, say researchers. The finding is the first
physiological difference to be documented between homosexual
and heterosexual women: A23
- PHOTOGRAPHS from the Galileo spacecraft are hinting at the
presence of water on the Jovian moon Europa: A23
- BRAIN SCANS of dyslexics show that they process words
differently than do non-dyslexics, say researchers at Yale
University: A23
- A SCHOLAR HAS DECIPHERED a cryptic letter by Thomas
Jefferson in which the future President wrote of his support
for educating slaves: A10
- NEW FEDERAL RULES on fiscal accountability by recipients of
U.S. grants have led to "serious stresses," according to a
report by the National Science Board: A43
- HOT TYPE: A25
- Thirty years after the My Lai massacre, two new scholarly
books question the causes of the slaughter of 504
Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops.
- The critic Jacques Derrida and the artist formerly known
as Prince are modern-day dandies, writes Rhonda K.
Garelick in her new book on the subject.
- 84 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A24-27
- Nota Bene: The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and
Slavery in Emerson's Boston, by Albert von Frank, a
professor of English and of American studies at
Washington State University. The book is published by
Harvard University Press.
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATION has announced the names of 10 new members: A58
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES has selected 15 new people to receive awards honoring their outstanding contributions to science: A59
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ACCESSIBLE WEB SITES
Fearing lawsuits or desiring to do good, some colleges are
trying to make their World-Wide Web pages accessible to people
with disabilities: A31
WIDESPREAD ASSAULTS ON SYSTEMS
Malevolent hackers attacked thousands of computers at about 25
universities in the United States last week: A33
MORE AID FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION?
Congress may make it easier for students enrolled at
distance-education institutions to qualify for federal
assistance. But critics fear a lack of scrutiny of the
institutions' quality: A38
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
REVIEWING THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
A House of Representatives panel approved a bill that would aid
proprietary institutions and colleges with large proportions of
Hispanic students, but a dispute over student-loan interest
rates could hold up the legislation: A37
MORE AID FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION?
Congress may make it easier for students enrolled at
distance-education institutions to qualify for federal
assistance. But critics fear a lack of scrutiny of the
institutions' quality: A38
PUSH FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
More states are requiring professionals in more occupations to
take classes than ever before, according to a new report: A41
GREATER EMPHASIS ON SCIENCE
The National Institutes of Health is considering a plan to stop
requiring researchers to submit detailed budget plans along
with their applications for grants: A42
WHERE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SURVIVES
State legislatures are showing little enthusiasm for proposals
to bar the use of racial preferences by public colleges and
other state agencies: A44
- CONGRESS WILL ALLOW researchers who wish to study Lake
Champlain to apply for funds from the National Sea Grant
College Program, even though it is not a "Great Lake": A37
- FOUR STATES -- Connecticut, Missouri, New York, and Virginia
-- are considering ending their sales taxes on college
textbooks: A37
- NEW FEDERAL RULES on fiscal accountability by recipients of
U.S. grants have led to "serious stresses," according to a
report by the National Science Board: A43
- A BIPARTISAN GROUP of U.S. Senators is pushing Congress to
keep alive, and even strengthen, the long-endangered State
Student Incentive Grant Program: A43
- THE COST TO RESTORE and preserve all historic buildings at
traditionally black colleges and universities has been
estimated at $755-million: A43
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY has been told by a state agency that it
should have obtained permission before agreeing to affiliate
itself with a private law school: A44
- AN INDIANA COURT has ruled that church-affiliated
universities do not violate the constitutional separation of
church and state by having campus police forces that enforce
state laws: A44
- NEW APPOINTMENTS in the federal government: A40
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
EMERGING MARKETS
Developing countries are attracting investments from some
universities that are prepared to deal with such volatile
economies: A45
SIGNALS FROM DORIS DUKE FUND
The foundation's first round of grants, announced late last
year, provides a clue to its priorities, some of which may be
in conflict: A48
A PRESIDENCY MANY WOULD SPURN
Matthew Goldstein says he is undaunted at being named the new
chief of Adelphi University, despite the turmoil that the
institution has been through: A11
- ORGANIZERS OF A FOOD DRIVE to help laid-off custodians at
Tufts University are accusing the institution of trying to
stymie their effort: A45
- HARVARD'S DIRECTOR of development is leaving in the midst of
a $2.1-billion campaign to go to the University of Michigan:
A45
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY has announced that it will put off
closing its dental school until 2001, a delay that will
allow all of its dental students to graduate: A47
- SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY has won the Vatican's approval to
sell its hospital to a for-profit chain, thereby ending the
hospital's Roman Catholic affiliation: A47
- SYLVAN LEARNING SYSTEMS has agreed to purchase two
affiliated companies that provide graduate-teacher
education: A47
- COLLEGE CONSTRUCTION is on the rise, according to a survey
published in College Planning & Management: A47
- TAKING STEPS TO SAVE the environment also saves money for
colleges, says a National Wildlife Federation report: A47
- FOUR STATES -- Connecticut, Missouri, New York, and Virginia
-- are considering ending their sales taxes on college
textbooks: A37
- BENEDICT COLLEGE has suffered a rash of recent arson fires,
and the authorities are searching for a suspect: A11
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A48-49
STUDENTS
SMALL GROWTH IN TUITION
Many private colleges say they are taking exceptional measures
to cut costs, but increases in their fees are still outpacing
the rate of inflation: A51
- As private colleges have been raising tuition, they also
have been offering more financial aid, a new study shows:
A52
- AN ANIMAL-RIGHTS ACTIVIST and New York University student
who interrupted a campus forum in November has not been
suspended: A51
- THE STATE UNIVERSITY of New York at Buffalo has settled a
federal lawsuit filed by a student anti-abortion group that
said the university had discouraged it from holding a
conference there in 1996: A51
- STUDENTS AT ABOUT 100 colleges in the United States and
Canada last week held a series of "teach-ins" aimed at
challenging what they said was increased corporate
involvement in higher education: A11
- A VIRGINIA COURT has ruled that the student newspaper at
Virginia Tech did not defame a campus official when it
accidentally identified her in print as the "Director of
Butt Licking": A10
- TWO COMMUNITY-COLLEGE CLASSMATES in Michigan discovered that
they were brothers who had been given up for adoption as
infants: A11
ATHLETICS
RENEWING THE DEBATE OVER A PLAYOFF
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I-A
Football Issues Committee has requested at least $250,000 to
finance a study of the "market value" of postseason
competition: A50
INTERNATIONAL
SAFETY DURING STUDY ABROAD
A group of college administrators is drafting guidelines that
emphasize the importance of orientation programs for students,
and of awareness of both health and cultural issues: A53
AFRICA'S ONLY WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY
Ahfad University, in Sudan, strives to educate its students to
be independent, but it worries about a backlash from the
country's Islamic government: A54
QUESTIONING SALARIES IN ISRAEL
The Ministry of Finance has criticized as "excessive" the pay
raises awarded recently to top university officials: A55
JERUSALEM DIARY
The intellectual war of words between Zionists and
post-Zionists is being fought almost entirely within the ranks
of the left, writes Hillel Halkin, a journalist and essayist
for the Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper: B7
STUDYING LEGALIZED DRUG USE
The Addiction Research Institute of Rotterdam plays a key role
in shaping the liberal drug policies of the Netherlands: B2
- IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECRUIT more students from the United
States, Canada's University of Windsor, in Ontario, is
offering tuition discounts to the best students in Indiana,
Michigan, and Ohio: A53
- JAPAN IS PLANNING to provide tuition grants to Asian
students at Japanese universities if they are from countries
that have been beset by recent economic troubles: A53
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE has dropped Germany's
Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, from a list of candidates to
receive honorary degrees this spring: A53
- INDONESIA UNEXPECTEDLY SHUT DOWN universities in Jakarta
just before President Suharto was due to gain a seventh
five-year term in office: A55
- MALAYSIA'S PRIME MINISTER has blamed the economic crisis in
Asia on "technology without morality": A55
- STUDENTS IN BRITAIN walked out of classes last week to
protest the government's plan to impose tuition: A55
OPINION & LETTERS
THE FUTURE OF ACADEMIC HOSPITALS
The United States needs to take bold steps to protect those
vital institutions, write Samuel Thier, chairman of the
Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers and
Nannerl Keohane, president of Duke University: A64
RELIGION AND POLITICS
Public-opinion surveys do not measure distinctions in beliefs
with enough detail, writes Geoffrey C. Layman, an assistant
professor of political science at Vanderbilt University: B4
DRAWING THE LINE AT ART
When you apply a critical yardstick to every experience, you
run the risk of forgetting how to feel, writes Terry Teachout,
a critic for the magazines Commentary and Civilization: B6
JERUSALEM DIARY
The intellectual war of words between Zionists and
post-Zionists is being fought almost entirely within the ranks
of the left, writes Hillel Halkin, a journalist and essayist
for the Forward, a weekly Jewish newspaper: B7
THE WORKING POOR ON THE CAMPUSES
Universities should help graduate students obtain the federal
assistance their low incomes make them eligible for, writes
David S. North, the public-affairs officer for the Office of
Insular Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior: B10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
'LEGENDS OF MAGNIFICENT EXCESS'
The Paris Music Hall Collection at the University of Georgia
offers rich material for artists, costume designers, theater
historians, and others: B8
DRAWING THE LINE AT ART
When you apply a critical yardstick to every experience, you
run the risk of forgetting how to feel, writes Terry Teachout,
a critic for the magazines Commentary and Civilization: B6
THE ART OF 'STORY QUILTS'
The book Dancing at the Louvre, on the work of Faith Ringgold,
has been published by the University of California Press: B92
- PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS at the Rochester Institute of
Technology enlisted the help of local residents recently to
take a picture of the city at night: A10
- LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY'S Brooklyn campus will hold a one-day
conference to mark the 100th birthday of Paul Robeson, the
black actor and singer who fought racial prejudice: A10
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
"BULLETIN BOARD": JOB OPENINGS
- DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research
positions in higher education, administrative and executive
jobs, and openings outside academe.
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